{"id":33,"date":"2017-02-13T13:51:20","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T13:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/milner-centre-for-evolution\/?p=33"},"modified":"2017-02-14T09:55:19","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T09:55:19","slug":"darwins-208th-birthday-was-celebrated-with-a-childrens-workshop-on-evolution-at-brlsi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/milner-centre-for-evolution\/2017\/02\/13\/darwins-208th-birthday-was-celebrated-with-a-childrens-workshop-on-evolution-at-brlsi\/","title":{"rendered":"Darwin\u2019s 208th birthday was celebrated with a children\u2019s workshop on Evolution at BRLSI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was the 208th anniversary of Charles Darwin\u2019s birthday, and what better way to celebrate it, than to children learn about natural selection, sing happy birthday to Darwin and eat some delicious cake?<\/p>\n

\"cake\"<\/p>\n

The Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution (BRLSI<\/a>) very kindly hosted Dr. Paula Kover (a reader in the Milner Centre for Evolution<\/a>), Lucy Eaton, Lauren\u00a0 and Amy\u00a0 (final year Biology undergraduates doing research in science education) to run a workshop on Inheritance and evolution, called \u201cThe evolution show\u201d. The children, volunteers and us had a great time, playing Chinese whispers with DNA sequence to learn about mutation, building birds and seeing how mutation and inheritance can make the bird become better at flying with the help\u00a0of natural selection. The children loved seeing the tree of life, that shows the evolutionary relationship among all major groups of organisms, and discover that a T.rex barbecue was likely to taste like chicken!<\/p>\n

Organizing workshops for young children (audience were 8 to 10 years old) is always a big challenge, because it needs to make evolution accessible and fun.\u00a0 This time, it involved a lot of last-minute laminating, photo copying, and a mad dash around all the local supermarkets for numbered candles (Have they gone out of fashion?).\u00a0 But it was all worth it, since 69% of the children attending the workshop gave us a score of 9 out of 10, \u00a0or higher.\u00a0 Also, the undergraduate students that helped had a good experience, and are ready for some more teaching of evolution to young kids in primary schools this term.<\/p>\n

\"bird\"<\/p>\n

Measuring how far the bird flew.<\/p>\n

\"fossils\"<\/p>\n

Digging for fossils<\/p>\n

\"trees\"<\/p>\n

Exploring evolutionary trees<\/p>\n

For more information on educational resources run by the\u00a0Milner Centre for Evolution see here<\/a>. And \u00a0Dr. Paula Kover also offers a wealth of resources for primary schools - see here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was the 208th anniversary of Charles Darwin\u2019s birthday, and what better way to celebrate it, than to children learn about natural selection, sing happy birthday to Darwin and eat some delicious cake? The Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":928,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/milner-centre-for-evolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/milner-centre-for-evolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/milner-centre-for-evolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/milner-centre-for-evolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/928"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/milner-centre-for-evolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/milner-centre-for-evolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/milner-centre-for-evolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/milner-centre-for-evolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/milner-centre-for-evolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}